Coal power generation falls by 27 GWh A sharp decline in coal-fired electricity generation in April 2026, compared to the...
Asith Siriwardena Counsel for former Director of State Intelligence Service, Major General (Retd.) Suresh Sallay, detained under the Prevention of...
AUSTRALIA For the first time since 2017, Australia do not have global silverware to defend, with last year’s ODI World...
Tamim Iqbal has been elected as the new BCB president following the elections held in Dhaka on Sunday. Tamim was...
With no play possible in the second ODI, both teams go into the third game well-rested. Perhaps this is a...
More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass...
South Africa successfully defended 136 in an 18-over game against Ireland in the Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up fixture in...
In the 11th over, KL Rahul edged a cut to the keeper off Ziaur Ahmed when he was on 16....
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat, but that was the extent of the action from...
WEATHER FORECAST FOR 07 JUNE 2026 Issued at 05.30 a.m. on 07 June 2026 by the Department of Meteorology Showers...
Sunday marks 100 days into the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran. But as fighting and...
West Indies won the toss and put Sri Lanka into bat in what is a must-win second ODI in Jamaica...
Dr B .J. C. Perera MBBS(Cey), DCH(Cey), DCH(Eng), MD(Paed), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Edin), FRCP(Lon), FRCPCH(UK), FSLCPaed, FCCP, Hony FRCPCH(UK), Hony. FCGP(SL) Specialist Consultant Paediatrician and Honorary Senior Fellow,...
Friday 26th March, 2021 Fond memories of Sri Lanka’s cricket World Cup victory (1996) have not faded even after a quarter century. Who can forget the...
The temporary ban on tile imports has plunged the tile and sanitary ware industry into a severe crisis. Considering the magnitude of this situation, we look...
The Women Directors Forum (WDF) of Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), together with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Women Corporate Directors Foundation (WCD), recently...
The realpolitik behind the UNHRC actions: Can Sri Lanka fly with the Eagle and ride the Dragon? The Western countries behind the UNHRC resolution have their...
BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 22: India on Monday named Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, revered in Bangladesh as father of the nation,...
By Rajitha Ratwatte fromoutsidethepearl@gmail.com As we all know there is increasing pressure to open borders and allow tourists in for the sake of the economy. This...
‘Politics of a Rainforest: Battles to Save Sinharaja’ By Kshama Ranawana Given the controversies surrounding Sri Lanka’s World Heritage Site, the Sinharaja Forest, the timing of...
On March 23, at the invitation of Santhush Woonjin Jeong, ambassador of the Republic of Korea, the captain of the 1996 Cricket World Cup winning team...
by Capt Gihan A Fernando gafplane@sltnet.lk The Cessna 172 It was a lovely day to fly. Clear skies and light winds. What more could a private...
By Saman Indrajith Fifteen pages of 17-and-a-half-page UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution against Sri Lanka, adopted on Tuesday, contained attacks on democracy and human rights...
India on Wednesday reported 223 cases of double mutations in the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, as of March 24, 2021. Of them, 206 were in Maharashtra, according...
